Energy Saving Light bulbs and Loft Insulation
Hi All,It's that time of year when one normally sees offers for loft insulation but I have not seen anything recently.
I am in full time work and a house owner so will likely be restricted to off the shelf offers and not government incentives.
Also, I seem to remember that it was possible to redeem free energy saving light bulbs. Is that now a thing of the past?
Thanks
Mike IIRC the discounting of CFLs etc is now over, the deals are now getting loans for new boiler etc. and paying it off via an assumed saving on your bill. Now known as the green deal, for now ..................... Is anyone eligible for the scheme? Green Deal: energy saving for your home or business - GOV.UK The green deal has been a flop IMO.I think pretty much anyone can sign up if they need some kind of energy saving measure.In a nutshell, your house is made more energy efficient by various means (insulation, new boilers, green energy etc.) and the savings made to your energy bills are used to pay back a loan taken against your property at about 7% interest.
So your bills don't go down and you get a tie on your property at a not particularly good interest rate.
If you can afford it, get the work done yourself with a cheaper loan.
We looked into it because we have (had) some knackered and non-double glazed windows, two very old boilers and no green measures.We already replaced a leaky roof with one with OTT insulation, and put a new kitchen window and back door in replacing rotting old ones.
January we are replacing the most important of the 5 single glazed (inconveniently) triangular windows in the house.
2014 we intend to get solar, but we need to have an EPC in band D first to get the feed-in-tariff, so we have to do something about the boilers also.We're seriously looking at a biomass boiler.If the RHI (renewable heat incentive) happens as anticipated, we may be looking at getting a cheaper loan than the green deal and with the RHI payments on the biomass boiler paying back the loan, we should be able to get a loan big enough to have solar installed as well and have the whole thing paid off in 7 years.I.e. a free biomass boiler and solar panels. We just have to have enough good credit to get a fairly large loan.
The RHI is worth investigating if you are thinking about this kind of thing.It's coming in for domestic in April 2014.
Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) - Increasing the use of low-carbon technologies - Policies- GOV.UK
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